As someone with expertise in mining, the Ashanti Regional Chairman has revaled that he understands the industry better than Martin Amidu.
Ghana’s former Special Prosecutor, Martin Amidu tendered in his resignation letter to the President citing the Agyapa Royalties agreement deal as a major reason for his decision.
In Martin Amidu’s letter, he stated that “I should not ordinarily be announcing my resignation to the public myself but the traumatic experience I went through from 20th October 2020 to 2nd November 2020 when I conveyed in a thirteen (13) page letter the conclusions and observations on the analysis of the risk of corruption and anti-corruption assessment on the Report On Agyapa Royalties Limited Transactions and Other Matters Related Thereto to the President as Chairman of the National Security Council cautions against not bringing my resignation as the Special Prosecutor with immediate to the notice of the Ghanaian public and the world.
he continued that “in undertaking the analysis of the risk of prevention of corruption and anti-corruption assessment I sincerely believed that I was executing an independent mandate under the Office of the Special Prosecutor, Act, 2017 (Act 959) and the Office of the Special Prosecutor (Operations) Regulations, 2018 (L. I. 2374). The reaction I received for daring to produce the Agyapa Royalties Limited Transactions anti-corruption report convinces me beyond any reasonable doubt that I was not intended to exercise any independence as the Special Prosecutor in the prevention, investigation, prosecution, and recovery of assets of corruption. My position as the Special Prosecutor has consequently become clearly untenable.”
But Mr. Bernard Antwi-Boasiako, rebuffed his explanation and stated on the Wontumi Morning Show that he has a better understanding of the Agyapa Royalties agreement than Martin Amidu. He claimed that his trade as a miner has given him a broad spectrum on mining activities and understands issues of mining better than Amidu.
“Why are you talking about Agyapa when you don’t understand mining? I am a miner and I understand it better than Amidu”, he said.
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